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Orit Farkash-HaCohen

No. 3 on the list of Yashar

Photo: Knesset website

Axis scores

From the record in previous Knessets

The security axis

The security axis: −0.6 on a scale from minus 10 to 10. From votes. 216 bills · 474 votes

From votes · 216 bills · 474 votes

The economic axis

The economic axis: −2.4 on a scale from minus 10 to 10. From votes. 342 bills · 942 votes

From votes · 342 bills · 942 votes

Conservative-Liberal

Conservative-Liberal: −2.0 on a scale from minus 10 to 10. From votes. 231 bills · 478 votes

From votes · 231 bills · 478 votes

Position on the political map

Compared with the lists

Orit Farkash-HaCohen: −0.6 on the security axis and −2.4 on the economic axis, on a scale from minus 10 to 10. From votes. On the map: 15 of 38 lists.

From votes · 15 of 38 lists measured on both axes · Range shown: ±6 on a scale of ±10 · Marked point: Orit Farkash-HaCohen, from votes, same measurement and scale as the lists

About

Orit Farkash-HaCohen: No. 3 on the list of Yashar for the 26th Knesset. In previous Knessets: votes on 560 bills and attendance at 572 committee sessions. Plenum votes on bills are included up to 28 July 2026, and committee discussions up to 24 March 2026.

Orit Farkash-HaCohen, a lawyer by training, served as chair of the Electricity Authority from 2011 to 2016, the first woman in the position. She was elected to the Knesset in 2019 for Blue and White and has served continuously since; she served as Tourism Minister, Strategic Affairs Minister and Innovation and Technology Minister in the Bennett-Lapid government, and is currently Deputy Speaker of the Knesset. Ahead of the 26th Knesset she is running at No. 3 on the Yashar list.

List for the 26th Knesset
Yashar
Place on the list
3
Bills voted on (Knessets 20-25)
560 bills
Committee sessions with attendance (Knessets 19-25)
572 sessions
On the Knesset website
Official page
Account on X
@FarkashOrit

List

Yashar

No. 3 on the list

Members of Yashar

119 more candidates, in list order.

The five committees with the highest attendance in the 25th Knesset. “Spoke” is counted from the committee sessions that were analysed. The data has no committee membership list, so this is attendance and speaking, not formal membership.

Legislative activity

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The bills whose vote moved the votes-based score the most, on each axis. These are bills that were voted on, not bills that were submitted: the data does not record who proposed a bill.

Bills on which the vote moved the votes-based score: The security axis
Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty (Amendment - The Right to Equality) Bill25th Knesset · Date of the latest document: 14 Jul 2025ForDetails: Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty (Amendment - The Right to Equality) Bill
Application of Sovereignty to Ma'ale Adumim Bill, 5785-202525th Knesset · Date of the latest document: 9 Jun 2025ForDetails: Application of Sovereignty to Ma'ale Adumim Bill, 5785-2025
Basic Law: Israel - The Nation State of the Jewish People (Amendment - Addition of a Commitment to Equality of Rights) Bill25th Knesset · Date of the latest document: 13 Jan 2025ForDetails: Basic Law: Israel - The Nation State of the Jewish People (Amendment - Addition of a Commitment to Equality of Rights) Bill
Cessation of the Activity of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Bill, 5783-202225th Knesset · Date of the latest document: 31 Oct 2024ForDetails: Cessation of the Activity of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Bill, 5783-2022

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  • -מעל ל 17 התראות לראש הממשלה: ״סופה מושלמת״״מצב בטחוני חריג״״התראה למלחמה״-המלצות אינספור לפעולות סיכול של צמרת חמאס-התרעה שאומרת לראש הממשלה - שמניעת סיכולים לא תספיק .-שר בטחון מתריע מתחנןהכל לשווא. הוא פשוט מפוטר. נתניהו: הסיפור הוא ממש לא האם העירו אותך בשש וחצי…

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